TWEET JEB!: Your brother didn't protect us on 9/11

[yurbud]

Last edited Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:15 PM - Edit history (1)

Not that Jeb has much chance of winning at this point, but he shouldn't be able to brag about his brother "keeping America safe for eight years."

I can kind of see why his primary opponents don't put a fork in that talking point, but it is criminal malpractice that leaders of the Democratic Party don't.

There was some argument for lining up behind Bush for a while after 9/11, but 14 years later, there is no reason to give Bush and his party a pass on this.

I tweeted this to Jeb:

@JebBush Your brother didn't protect us on 9/11. Just about every other president did a better job of protecting Americans in America.

I forgot to add, feel free to tweet this to JEB! yourself. This should be the only thing people see in his twitter feed.

[Octafish]

1. It IS criminal malpractice.

That's the role of the Washington Generals, though, to lose.

[yurbud]

2. If LBJ had stayed out of Vietnam and Dems stuck with New Deal, Great Society consensus...

there would be no Republican Party today.

[kairos12]

3. Shrub and Jeb are total losers. Even the Generals win once a decade or so.

[yurbud]

21. saying Bush didn't keep us safe on 9/11 even a couple of times would put GOP on defensive

and destroy their security credentials (which are really about offense not defense anyway).

[napkinz]

4. ...

[ryan_cats]

5. Out of 2920 days

Out of 2920 days, he kept us safe for 2919 days, right Jeb?

I was impressed how the Anthrax killer was caught like Osama during W's reign of love.

[Bucky]

12. 2918, if you count Katrina as just one day of "protection"

Also assuming Republicans count New Orleans as "us"

I'm certain Bush wasn't counting the thousands of troops sent to their deaths in an optional war in the wrong country as the "us" his idiot brother kept safe.

[ryan_cats]

13. If I were a compassionate person

If I were a compassionate person, which I am not, I could almost give him a pass for sitting, punch drunk, in the Florida classroom as it took me several minutes to realize that I just saw a bunch of people die when the second plane hit.
We don't have 911s happen every day but we do have hurricanes.

I still remember screaming at them to get water to the people on the overpass but it was a treat to see W's concern as he flew over NO in AF1. I know they weren't concerned but I did expect them to at least act concerned.

I am scared that W is the smart one...

[napkinz]

6. "my brother kept us safe" ... really???

[yurbud]

10. tweet those to Jeb

[napkinz]

11. I'm not on Twitter but that would be great if you or others could tweet them to Jeb

[napkinz]

7. Bill Maher and Chris Matthews Tear Into Jeb: "How Can He Get Away with Saying W Kept Us Safe?!"

https://www.facebook.com/Bipartisanism/videos/893314344078908 (click to see this video; not yet available on youtube)

[Bucky]

8. "My brother kept us safe" if you don't count US troops or New Orleans or Mississippi or homeowners

But if you think of American interests as "Blackwater" or "Northrup Grummon" rather than, say, ordinary retirement account holders, then yes, Bush was good for you.

[napkinz]

9. and then there was the time ...

[malaise]

14. Don't forget the economic meltdown of 2008 either n/t

[napkinz]

16. and let's not forget Poland ... I mean Iraq ...

[WinkyDink]

15. And the thing is, nobody blathered about any President "keeping us safe" post-1941.

[napkinz]

17. ...

[tclambert]

18. What did George W. Bush ever keep us safe from? Sharknados?

Certainly not terrorism. The largest terrorist attack in American history happened more than seven months into his first term. Prior to that, he never took any action against terrorism, never attended any meetings on terrorism, never had any of his senior aides attend meetings on terrorism, and he never made any "get-tough-on-terrorism" speeches until the evening of September 11th, when circumstances forced him to. I will admit that I don't know if he could have done anything that would have prevented the 9/11 attacks. But I do know he didn't even try.

He certainly didn't keep us safe when he invaded the wrong country for the wrong reasons and got more Americans killed than died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

He certainly didn't keep us safe when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, and he stayed on vacation, made no presidential plea for people to evacuate, didn't put everybody he could on alert, and his incompetent staff didn't get drinkable water to people struggling to survive in 90 degree heat in New Orleans for four days.

He certainly didn't keep us safe when allowing big banks to regulate themselves and it led to thousands losing their homes, nearly ruined the financial system of the whole wide world, and plunged us into the worst recession since The Great Depression.

But we didn't have any Sharknados until 2013. So . . . heckuva job, Bushie.

[yurbud]

22. tweet it to @jebbush

[summerschild]

19. And using Jeb!'s logic,

the Secret Service kept JFK safe in Dallas.

[yurbud]

20. No president was assassinated for the remainder of Kennedy's term.

[Bucky]

23. My brother kept us safe" if you don't count US troops, or New Orleans,

[napkinz]

24. more ...

[Mike Nelson]

26. I often see the Benghazi dead on Facebook...

...with a photo or comment blaming Obama or Hillary. This should be all over Facebook.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Ah..you remind me of DU early years - we would bombard with

mass emails ! Just think how we could change things ! Hell, bet we could even get someone fired if we all worked together !

I will tweet. thanks Y

[yurbud]

28. I remember that. It's just a matter of finding the right place to throw a rock...

[sonofspy777]

27. I did!

Tweet
I reminded him that 09/11 happened on his brother's watch
I then said dementia must run in your family...

[yurbud]

29. if enough people do this, we could force not just GOP but DC elite to acknowledge reality